http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog This is the bike that will love you back. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:42:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A good bike can be many things - transportation, recreation, total elation.  And also a big chunk of change. But if you live in the Portland area, getting a Sweetpea just got a little easier with the new Bike Loan program from Unitus Community Credit Union. Much like getting a loan ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/07/22/unitus-bike-loan-program/ Calling themselves "highly subjective and judgemental", Alltop has chosen the Sweetpea Bicycles blog as one of their top cycling sites on the web.  Alltop calls themselves a "digital magazine rack" for the internet and tracks all-the-top sites in a multitude of different categories. This is really exciting news for us.  One ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/07/08/sweetpea-bicycles-featured-on-alltop/ We moved. For those of you that read our blog, you will recognize this as a familiar topic. But this time around it was a little different, we moved everything - our entire life in one weekend: home and shop. One of the things about moving is that it ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/07/07/holding-on/ Like all good curries, this one was stewing for a while. I was chatting with a fantastic lady at the Sprokettes Mobile Dance Party, confessing that I was woefully lacking in the sass department.  This is something I have come to terms with, but every year Pedalpolooza shows me just how ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/07/04/introducing-two-bite-curry/ So if you happen to find yourself in a supermarket in Billings, Montana or a bookstore in Boulder, Colorado, or the millions of other places where Bicycling Magazine is sold, pick it up and take a slow easy walk to page 86.  There's Natalie hard at work with a quote ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/06/16/sweetpea-bicycles-featured-in-bicycling-magazine/ sweetpea bicycles from daniel sharp on Vimeo. A few months ago Nau approached us and said they wanted to do a video about us for their website. We were honored. This was a company that worked in bold stokes. They were ambitious, talented, and incredibly smart. They ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/06/02/you-are-where-you-are-traveling-through/ Quiet confidence and grace, and a sense of style that I can't really take full credit for. The woman this bike was built for shares that natural ease and refined aesthetic. A natural rider whose exudes an easy strength. Ultegra parts, Open Pro Wheelset, totally rad Campy water bottle, ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/05/25/silver-road/ I got up, let the dog out, and jumped into the shower. No sooner had I pulled on my favorite pair of shop pants and an old t shirt, than a voicemail appeared blinking on my telephone. I hadn't had my coffee, and already I was missing calls. It was ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/05/22/going-to-hell-twice-without-leaving-the-kitchen-%e2%80%93-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-framebuilder/ Here is a preview of a rig that just came back from paint.  We are calling it Two Bite Curry: the first bite is hot, the second bite sweet. http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/04/19/preview-two-bite-curry/ (Editor's note: Completely reckless use of linguistic devices ahead.) Quietly, like a new years eve celebration that goes to bed at 9:30, we celebrated our one year anniversary of being car free. There was less fuss to going car free than I would have anticipated - the lease was up, so I ... http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/2008/04/17/one-less-car-one-year-later/